About Adriana Janacópulos
Lived 1897 – 1978 (aged 80–81). Adriana Janacópulos was a Brazilian sculptor.
Adriana Janacópulos (1897 - c. 1978) was a 20th-century Brazilian sculptor.
Biography
Adriana Janacopulos was born in Petrópolis Rio de Janeiro in 1897.
She married the Russian sculptor, Alexandre Wolkowyski, with whom she had two daughters.
In 1938 Janacópulos received a commission from the Ministry of Education and Health, to sculpt a work for the Gustavo Capanema Palace. She participated in the first São Paulo Art Biennial, in 1951.
After the death of Vera in 1955, Adriana honored her sister with a bust, inaugurated in 1958 in Paris Square, in Rio de Janeiro.
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Who was Adriana Janacópulos?
Brazilian sculptor
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Adriana Janacópulos was born in 1897 in Petrópolis.
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Adriana Janacópulos died in 1978.
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Adriana Janacópulos was a sculptor.
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Adriana Janacópulos was Brazilian.
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